Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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At PMQ's he promised to cut back on green energy charges, and then blamed labour for them.
from the same person who told us we can vote blue and get green, from the same person who changed his logo from a torch to a tree, from the same person who voted in favour of Labour's climate change act.
Back when he heard labour's anouncement in Carbon Capture, wanted it to go further and faster.
Then devised and supported the Carbon Floor Tax.
then (beside the lib dems) decided on "Low Carbon Generation" - set to double energy bills by 2020 - about the only target they are in line to meet.
There you see a hypocrite
Maybe i shuld trust DC more then I trust Hansard, Or maybe not, maybe i might be right to use hansard to find out this sort of thing